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Tuesday evening, my kids discovered a bird flailing around in our pool. We fished it out and set it on the lawn. It didn't fly away, so we placed it in a box and put it in the garage, hoping it would recover after it settled down. A couple hours later, my 13-yr-old daughter went out to check on it. Apparently, the bird decided life in a box was boring, because as soon as she lifted the towel off, it flew out!

Hearing the commotion, I ran downstairs to see what was going on. Standing in the doorway between the house and the garage, I saw my daughter and my brother trying to shoo the bird out the open garage door. It was hilarious! Shoo, dive-bomb, duck, shoo, dive-bomb, duck! Then my daughter yells out, "Close the door!" It never even occurred to me that the bird could fly into the house!

When the bird finally found its way out, my daughter turned to me and said, "There's a story for your newsletter. And if you're too embarrassed to tell them you almost let the bird in the house, you can tell them it was me." Teenagers - gotta love 'em!